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3 experiments with CSS paper effects

Suzanne Aitchison on January 08, 2021

Over the last few days I've been playing around with a few paper-inspired CSS effects in CodePen, and thought I'd share! Experiment 1: F...
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Waylon Walker

Those folds are fantastic!

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Suzanne Aitchison

thank you so much!

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Thomas Bnt ☕

Beautiful! ☕

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Suzanne Aitchison

Thanks! 😊

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Eddie

Incredible work! Can I use this for my website?

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Suzanne Aitchison

Sure! If you want to do a straight copy paste, it'd be cool if you could maybe credit me in a wee code comment, but otherwise just have fun adjusting it and making it your own 😊

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Eddie

Nice thanks and will do on the code attribution.

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Mariano Maison

Awesome!

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Júlio Santos

It's amazing. Good job.

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Jakub Narębski

The "contact me" design looks nice... but unfortunately the addresses are highly unreadable.

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Suzanne Aitchison

Yes, I agree. Even at larger font sizes, rotating the text like that isn't very readable. Definitely more of an experiment than something immediately usable on a site 👍

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hkly

These are great! I love the folded and taped effect!

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Suzanne Aitchison

Thanks! Now I need to work out how to make it look like the paper's torn or crumpled or something 🤔

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Natalia Chernysheva

Love the paper notes!!

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Suzanne Aitchison

Woooah! Very small world! Nice to see you here 😁

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Suzanne Aitchison

Oh nice! Love the post-its!

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wonderful look, thanks a lot.

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Benjamin La Madrid

sweet!

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Jasmin Virdi

This looks so amazing!❤️

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My Code Magic

Really I love 1 paper effect

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Mohammed-Farrag

I like it

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Gal Elmalah

Really cool stuff!

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Nick Taylor

These look amazing! Nice work. 🔥

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RealToughCandy.io

The folded paper with taped edges is my favorite.

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Suzanne Aitchison

Thank you! Yeah I think it's my favourite too 😊

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Alvaro Montoro

These demos look great. And the last one is a really cool idea.

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Suzanne Aitchison

Thank you! I might keep noodling on the last one - I think there's something in it... maybe... but it's not quite there yet!

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Aydın küçükoğlu

Thank you

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Phong Duong

Very beautiful 👏

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Designer Anna

Nice CSS tricks. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Anjil bishowkarma

nice work,

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Bhupesh Singh Nikhurpa

"Folded paper with taped edges" is the show stopper for me.

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Suzanne Aitchison

Thanks so much! It was fun to make 😊

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حسین عظیمی بیرجندی

It was great. You are the best

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Pfc

Wow! Nice work

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allisonlu

So cool! Thanks for sharing.

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blakewood84

This is good stuff! Impressed with your skills

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Suzanne Aitchison

Maybe we can tempt you over to the front end haha 😈

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Lhoutre

Impressive work ! I'm inspired now 😊

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Suzanne Aitchison

Yay! Glad to provide some inspiration 😁

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Chris Cooper

That looks so good

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Katy

These are so cool. Using the sellotape one for a school website I am building. Thank you!